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hdv

@hdv@front-end.social

Freelance frontend specialist. Accessibility advocate. Speaker.

Currently working on NL Design System and standards for the Dutch government. Before: W3C, Mozilla.
Open UI CG participant.
Interested and will likely talk about: web accessibility, the web, standards, design, tech ethics, components, JS, books, personal websites, CMSes, the video conferencing apps of our decade.

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Indieweb idea: a /uses page but it lists how many years the item has been in use (for those who try and buy less stuff).

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🔗 AI uses too much energy https://hidde.blog/links/ai-uses-too-much-energy/

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EN 301 549 does get easier to read once you spend more time with it. I would recommend anyone trying to start with Annex E, which is very to the point.

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The full schedule for All Day Hey in Leeds is out, it's going to be a good one! https://heypresents.com/conferences/2024/schedule

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I have a child that doesn't like pizza. I also received a sourdough starter from a friend last week that I'm preparing some experiments with.

Will I change their mind?

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@sarajw I'm still dedicated to prove them wrong in the near future (and if not at least I'll have more myself)

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@sarajw @robinwhittleton WOW. that's shocking in many ways

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@sarajw @robinwhittleton the latter

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“On popover accessibility: what the browser does and doesn’t do”

I really, really appreciate articles like these https://hidde.blog/popover-accessibility/

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@baldur thanks Baldur!

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✏️ You may have heard people say that the new popover attribute has accessibility “built in”. And you might wonder what that actually means.

Me and @scottohara wrote a post to explain what the browser does and doesn't do in terms of accessibility when you use popover

https://hidde.blog/popover-accessibility/

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If you're not sure what popover is for, I've written this post about how popover is different https://hidde.blog/dialog-modal-popover-differences/

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As I started writing a new post about accessibility being “built-in” to components I found out I had written this post a few years ago: on claims vs reality https://hidde.blog/accessible-front-end-components-claims-vs-reality/

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A lot of the requirements in those job ads are my fault. Don’t hold the Jekyll/Liquid/Symlink mess against WAI. It felt like a good idea at the time. https://w3c.social/@wai/112123156959524822

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@yatil it was a good compromise

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having watched all the reaction videos, curious what you all think of the Dutch Eurovision entry https://youtu.be/gT2wY0DjYGo

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If you use a screenreader and have used fields with a live character counter, what do you find works best in terms of screenreader announcements? Is a live region useful or too much?

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Next week, US daylight savings time starts (3 weeks before European daylight savings), so US meeting times will be off for European folks.

Today I managed to show up at the wrong time already, because I am in the UK and I looked up the time in my brain instead of my calendar app.

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I really like the new HTML switch control in Safari 17.4, and its carefully thought-out backwards-compatible markup <input type=checkbox switch checked> so in other browsers, it's a checkbox. https://webkit.org/blog/15054/an-html-switch-control/

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@eric @brucelawson could you expand on ‘bypassed’?

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TFW people buy a coffee after they read a post <3 it's appreciated.

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A few years ago I wrote “Why it's good for users that HTML, CSS and JS are separate languages” and I still mostly stand by it https://hidde.blog/why-its-good-for-users-that-html-css-and-js-are-separate-languages/ (thanks @SaraSoueidan for reminding me of it)

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Dear people who make websites,

Do you ever block your users from being able to paste into a text field?

Why?

Do you need this ability for a good reason? What’s that reason?

Or, as a user, would you like to see it go away? Perhaps you encounter sites that prevent you from pasting your super complex password from your password manager into a password field, and wonder why they can do so?

What might be the downside of removing support of disallowing pasting from the web?

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@jensimmons maaybe a valid use case of disallowing paste could be in educational tech, eg to prevent cheating in certain cases? (cc @jpzwarte might know?)

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“We would like to invite you to speak, but you will have to secure your own travel and lodging arrangements”
—a large US conference

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Claims on the benefits of generative AI need explanation of how the solution mitigates fabulating and falsehoods, how it mitigates environmental impact and how it avoids automatically (!) reinforcing bias.

Until then, scepticism is in order, sorry not sorry. “Atlas of AI” does a good job at listing many of the issues. My review of a few years ago https://hidde.blog/how-ai-is-made-matters-confirms-atlas-of-ai/

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📚 “We need to be wary of technoableism: technology, development and marketing that makes it seem like disability is a big, bad thing, that needs to be downplayed or eliminated.”

“We need to make the world more hospitable to more ways of being and existance. (…) by loosening our ideas about what the right stuff and by insisting there is no wrong stuff”

from “Against technoableism” by Ashley Shew (recommended!) https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324036661

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popover ships in Firefox 125!🎉

Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1866993
My post on how popover is different: https://hidde.blog/dialog-modal-popover-differences/

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